at Creative Circle, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Position Overview:
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for marketing operations and planning? Our client, an online university, is seeking a Marketing Planner to join their team for a 6 month freelance role, fully remote, 30-40 hours per week with strong potential to extend. This is a unique opportunity to work cross-functionally across their marketing verticals-Undergraduate, Nursing, and Brand-and help turn strategy into action.
As the Marketing Planner, you'll serve as the operational and strategic connector across the marketing organization, ensuring campaigns are aligned, executed on time, and optimized for performance. You'll be the central hub between strategy, project management, and execution teams, with visibility into leadership-level impact.
The role is remote, but there could be longer-term potential for candidates located in Chicago, Minneapolis, or Columbia, MD who would be willing to eventually work a hybrid schedule.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles, translating strategic priorities into actionable roadmaps.
- Maintain and manage the integrated marketing calendar in partnership with project managers.
- Facilitate quarterly planning meetings and QBRs, synthesizing insights into future recommendations.
- Oversee creative refresh cadence across verticals and manage refresh planning meetings.
- Partner with analytics and channel leads to produce monthly performance readouts.
- Collaborate with PMs to align campaign timing, asset delivery, and production milestones.
- Manage budget pacing and resource forecasting with leadership and Finance.
- Support process optimization and marketing operations initiatives.
- Ensure organized documentation of plans and deliverables for leadership transparency.
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of experience in marketing planning, operations, or strategy (agency or brand side).
- Deep understanding of integrated marketing workflows across creative, media, and analytics.
- Proven ability to lead planning cycles and synthesize complex information.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- An analytical mindset with the ability to interpret performance data.
- Proficiency in Google Workspace or Microsoft Office; experience with Asana, Smartsheet, Monday.com or similar
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, or higher education is a plus.
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data.
Benefits
Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.
Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
amy.banks@jobalert.creativecircle.com
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Amy Banks - Senior Recruitment Manager
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 10/31/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
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